*Warning* This is super long!
So I've been slackin' on the ole' blog and I have received several emails, comments and texts from you all about why and what am I doing. So I'm feeling so loved. Glad to know somebody misses me!
But here's the thing, I haven't really been doing anything all that interesting!
My friend Melanie asked me what's up with Barry's job and are we moving and have I had another fake heart attack. So here is a little update to the status of our lives.
Barry has decided to stay at the Davis County Jail for now. Weber County seems to be on a hiring freeze due to budgets and we are just so tired of waiting and being in limbo. Plus after this long, I figure the Man Upstairs might be trying to tell us something. Just a hunch.
He is also still in school and plans to apply to the nursing program this fall and hopefully get into the program Fall '09. The fact that he's a guy seems to be largely in his favor for getting in on the first try and my sister did it on first try so we are hopeful and prayerful!
Barry and I both are currently taking a CNA class together. Barry because it's a pre-req to nursing and me because I hope to get a job at Primary Children's Medical Center. When I was 18 I went to SLCC and finished almost all my pre-req's for the Surgical Tech program and I'm thinking I may want to finish that up. I really love being in surgery. And now days the nurse is just in the background during surgery whereas the Surg Tech is hands on with the Doc, and that is what I want to do.
In the mean time I need to work a few days a week so we can move out of the parents house! My sister works as a CNA, or Tech they call them, at Primary Children's on the Surgical Floor and loves it. According to her boss he will be hiring in July when I'm done with the class and I'm crossing my fingers to get that job. One I want to work with kids and two they pay CNA's way better than anywhere else I've found.
As far as the moving thing, does Hmmmm or Ummmm...explain it well enough for you? Didn't thinks so. It doesn't for us either but that's where we're at...still. We had completely expected to being moving to the North Ogden area but it seems that's not where we are suppose to be. So we started looking around here for a rental house and that is just not feeling right either! We can't afford to buy down here right now unless it's a small townhome and we don't want to do that either.
Then my sister says to me a few weeks ago, Kel why are you moving anyway? And I'm confused now, I say because we have been at Mom and Dads for 15 months and we told them we'd only be here for 1 year. She then says, well if I were you guys I'd just stay here till Barry is done with school.
???WHAT???
And she was serious too! I don't think my parents will like us very much if we stay much longer, we kind of run the house. Well at least the kids do. But hey, I cleaned her carpets today so that counts for something, right?
So here we sit. Me, I'm feeling a bit lost frankly. I feel like I spend more time on my knees pleading with the Lord to point us in the right direction and I'm sure he's attempting to tell me, but I'm apparently just not getting it! I keep thinking that perhaps when I'm done with my CNA class and have a job something will change and we will feel good about it.
Then there is my little heart attack episode. (insert long pause and big sigh here) All test are normal, it hasn't happened since. I do have really low blood pressure which makes me feel like I'm going to pass out all the time but that's not unusual for me. So looking back I've decided it must have been a panick attack. Weird that it was in my sleep and I've never really done that before but looking at all the big decisions we are struggling with lately I suppose it may make sense.
For treatment I have put myself on manditory do nothing therapy. No dance class, no soccer, no t-ball, no swim lessons, nothing. In fact I generally fill up the van with gas every 10 days or so and I have not filled it since school was out 3 1/2 weeks ago. That tells you how much we even leave the house! We have friends over and slip and slide and go to the park and eat home lunches and stay in our PJ's and wash the cars and it is so nice. We are usually the get in the car and go somewhere everyday kind of family. Whether it's just to Target to wander and buy things we don't really need or out to lunch we are always on the go. So now, we go no more.
Jena is such a little stinker right now. Ryan acted the same way right before he started Kindergarten so I'm not surprised but she is sure not my favorite child right now. She challenges everything, disobey's everything, talks back, hit's her brother and sister all while yelling the most mean things she can think of, screams no at me, throws herself on her bed and cries for literally hours and then gets up and starts it all over again. I can't wait to hand her over to the kindergarten teacher to whip her into shape! :)
Actually I'm starting a Good Deeds/Kindness Jar for her. If she does what she is asked or is nice to someone, she gets a bead to put in. If she does her usual she has to take a bead out. When it gets to a certain fill level she will get a reward of some kind. We'll see if it works. I'm sort of skeptical.
Ryan is a house rat! I can not get him to go do anything! He won't call friends or go outside and it's driving me nuts. I'm about to punish him by sending him to a friends house! We have also started using one of those Bed Wetting Alarm Systems with him. It's only been 2 nights, 2 very long nights, and they say it takes about 12 weeks to seek success. So our summer nights will be long and slow but hopefully by 1st grade he will be through with the bed wetting. I had the same problem as a kid so I know what it's like. Only I was dry until Kindergarten and then wet the bed till I was 9, but it was the Alarm that worked for me. My mother is convinced something horribly traumatic happened to me in Kindergarten to cause it, but I don't remember a thing. Ry has never been dry at night but it doesn't make much of a difference in treating the problem. He would also die if he knew I told you all about the alarm so if you see him don't mention it unless he does.
Sara is either tons of fun or a flat out stinker! She is such a typical 15 month old but with a Hansen temper thrown in just for kicks. I have this video of her throwing this big fit because she didn't want me to take a picture of her. I guessing she's been watching big sister a little to close lately. She is finally easier to feed since she has decided to eat. She is quite picky and if it's not grapes she doesn't want it. I think her favorite time of day is eating breakfast with grandpa. If he has left for work by the time we get out there she whines for 'Bompa' all morning and wants to go look for him in his room. It's pretty cute.
Sorry you get a picture of me and my hormonal face.
My skin is freaking out again.
I think I might have cancer on my nose because I've never had acne like this before.
And let me tell you how much that adds to the happiness in my life!
Here is the video, it's sort of long but you get the idea in the first 15 seconds.
I'm too lazy to make it shorter.
He always runs into former 'inmates' everywhere we go and
it is so bizzare how they come talk to him and act like they are old buddies.
Just about the only picture anyone was able to get of Ry.
He was finally tall enough to go on the Old White Roller Coaster and he loved it.
Unlike Chris who cried through the whole thing! Poor kid!
Jena and Sydney wanted nothing to do with the 'Big' rides.
They were perfectly happy in Kiddy Land all day.
They also LOVED the performances with the singing and dancing and high school kids.
They could have sat and watched that all day long.
Everywhere they go people always think they are sisters.
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Oh my gosh!! I cannot stop laughing at Sara's video. She did not want Jena anywhere near her! or anywhere near you! Oh my. It makes a mom feel good to see another child throwing a fit! Faith is all about throwing fits right how. What is a mother to do???
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